Anna Eva Muessig Childers (Ann E. Childers)
Anna Eva Muessig Childers (Ann E. Childers)
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012, in Colorado Springs, CO, Anna Eva Muessig Childers (Ann E. Childers) of Jane Lew, WV passed quietly into God’s care while she was sleeping. She had been visiting with her daughter and sister.
Ann was born in Galveston, Texas, on September 22, 1924: daughter of Karl John Wilhelm and Anna (Egert) Muessig.
In 1944, she married 2nd Lt. Max Kenneth Graham, USAF, who was killed in action over Normandy the same year. Ann returned to college, graduating from the University of Houston with a degree in art.
She married Warren Childers in Houston, Texas, in 1955. When she retired in 1995, Ann moved to Jane Lew.
She was a member of St. Paul’s Church.
She was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5131 Auxiliary, the Women of Transfiguration Church in Buckhannon, Jane Lew Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary, Lewis County, West Virginia Republican Club, and Theresa Snaith Auxiliary of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital. She was very active in her organizations and art work.
Her brother, Carl John Muessig, predeceased her.
Ann is survived by her beloved sister, Leonia Joann (Johnson) Seabury of Pinellas Park, FL; cousin Eva Louise Fritiofson of Galveston, Texas; daughter Lauren Eva (Childers) Martin and husband, Andrew Martin of Colorado Springs, CO; daughter Maxine Graham Olson and husband Fred A. Olson of Jane Lew; two grandsons, William David Graham Olson and wife Wesson Olson of Vienna, Virginia, and Max Kenneth Graham Olson and wife, Monique Stephens of Houston, Texas; two great-grandchildren, Amna and Ibrahim Olson, both of Vienna, VA.
There was a memorial service at St. Paul’s Church in Weston and a service at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Houston.
She was interred in Oleander Cemetery in Galveston, Texas.
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